Private investigator and Arizona native Conner Bright tries to hide from his past with a b-movie quality Australian accent, alligator skin boots, and a bowie knife strapped to his side, but it always seems to catch up to him.This collection contains four essential Conner Bright Mysteries:The Case of the Purple UnicornChupacabraHaunted by the PastThe Devil You KnowWhile each story is stand-alone, together they comprise a lar...

Private investigator and Arizona native Conner Bright tries to hide from his past with a b-movie quality Australian accent, alligator skin boots, and a bowie knife strapped to his side, but it always seems to catch up to him.When a little girl swears she saw her great uncle murdered by a purple unicorn, Conner takes the case expecting to face nothing more than a little girl’s overactive imagination. But in this short story, Conner must confront his past and put his life on the line...

Private investigator and Arizona native Conner Bright tries to hide from his past with a b-movie quality Australian accent, alligator skin boots, and a bowie knife strapped to his side, but it always seems to catch up to him.When Conner investigates an apparent haunting at a Tempe bar called "The Devil You Know", his past really catches up with him. One person already died after hearing a malevolent voice that no one else can hear. Can Conner get to the truth before anyone else die...

Can an android feel fear?A prototype, the only one of her kind, Nan must fight for her very existence. In a future New York City, she did what any Nanny would do to protect her charge and someone died. To survive, she must defend her actions and her programming. Will it be enough?In the spirit of Asimov comes a story about an android told in her own words.This is a novelette (approximately 9,000 words or 35 pages long long).

Walter Anchor wants to solve his own murder, but with no leads and nothing else to do he solves other murders to pass the time.When his best ghost-friend Emily finds a dead bride alone in a hotel without a scratch on her, things go from bad to worse for Walter. The bride looks just like his ex-wife. Seeing her forces Walter to come face-to-face with a past he wants to forget.Can Walter reconcile with his past in time to solve the murder and save the ghost bride from the gho...

Walter Anchor spends his afterlife solving murders in the hope of one day getting good enough to solve the toughest murder of all. His own.But when his partner and best ghost-friend Emily finds a body on top of a skyscraper killed by a long, hard fall, it leads to more clues and more suspects than the two of them can handle.It will take a team of ghosts working together with the Tucson police department to solve a murder this bizarre.From the author of Shuffled ...

Life and death are not that far apart...What happens when we die? Viki Dobos knows. Her job is to help people talk to their dearly departed. She draws the deceased, and they come to life on the page… briefly. When a rich Russian man hires her and whisks her away to Hawaii, everything changes. The rich man wants her to do the forbidden, and a handsome man she meets on the beach needs her more than he knows. Viki will have to confront her past, face her fears, and ri...

Who wants to rest in peace?Want to have a happy afterlife as a ghost? Then, stay out of the bardo (your own personal hell); avoid your old meat-life—it only leads to trouble; and take your time with your unfinished business. In other words, rest in peace.But, resting in peace doesn't work for JJ Lynch. He will have to break all the rules and risk everything to do the right thing and find his way in the afterlife.Using technology developed at the Uni...

Ghost Hacker (noun): an individual that uses programming knowledge and social engineering to repair or alter the virtualized neural duplicates of the deceased (commonly called "ghosts").Zombie Maker (noun): bullets with a biological payload that makes their victim compliant and malleable for a short time before causing catastrophic damage to the neural tissue resulting in a painful death.Boss used to have a career as the lead animator for a high-end virtual actress. Boss us...

Private investigator and Arizona native Conner Bright tries to hide from his past with a b-movie quality Australian accent, alligator skin boots, and a bowie knife strapped to his side, but it always seems to catch up to him.Investigating an apparent haunting inside the deserted Metrocenter Mall, a place he loved in his youth, Conner will face much more than he bargained for in this creepy, abandoned building. When this bizarre case takes a personal turn, can Conner keep from falli...

Two dragons, a kraken, Cthulhu and a bunch of zombies, lots of monsters here. A couple of unicorns, a naiad, the Grim Reaper, and the Devil, plenty of creatures too.From the fertile imagination of Robert J. McCarter comes Creatures Featured, a collection of 13 stories that cross genres and take some old stories in exciting new directions. Each tale featuring his unique style of storytelling.Expect surprises and wonder at the creatures featured here.

Everything will change…Nik Nichols (aka Neutrinoman) and Licia Lopez (aka Lightningirl) face their greatest challenges yet with an impossible mission, a forced separation, and new, unexpected enemies at every turn.With their secret identities revealed and their relationship with the military souring, will they find the strength to keep saving the world and stay in love? Can they form a team powerful enough to meet the looming alien threat?From the a...